Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" was released in 1994 with a video that looks like home footage of Carey frolicking in the snow with Santa and a dog that is wearing fake antlers. It's just hard to appreciate its charms after its thousandth rendition.īut even if you don't particularly enjoy hearing a constant stream of Christmas music – and who would without wanting to bang your head on a manger – you can still acknowledge that some of it is huuuge. It's not that the 1967 hit by the Royal Guardsmen, "Snoopy's Christmas", is a bad song. This is essential in New Zealand where, back in the day, middle-of-the-road radio stations had a weird seasonal obsession with playing a song about Charlie Brown's dog taking on a German fighter pilot ace in a plane fight. It's just as well that learning how to avoid Christmas music is the kind of skill you develop as you grow older. But no one has time for those lyrics when you're melting into your jandals, feeling like any moment you'll die of heat exhaustion. ![]() It could be quite a nice feeling walking through silently falling snow and looking forward to chestnuts roasting on a open fire. Maybe, if it was winter, the music would be more bearable. But it's annoying when the tunes creep through malls like an insistent invisible fog that subconsciously drives shoppers and retail workers quietly insane. I don't mind hearing Christmas music on Christmas Eve, or a few songs by, say, Boney M, Bing Crosby, Elvis, Nat King Cole – even Michael Buble – the next morning. * Oscar Kightley: These wreaths mark family tragediesĪlthough, in the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas carols throughout Britain (just imagine if that rule had carried on and become a thing the Brits took with them as they went around merrily colonising the world) and, in 1739, the first published version of "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" appeared, most of what we'd regard as traditional Christmas music is actually less than 200 years old. * Christmas music could be damaging retail workers' emotional wellbeing ![]() * "Joyce to the world": Contemporary Kiwi carols for Christmas
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